Year: 2007

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Mark Steyn: We’ve replaced Rushdie in hiding. Captain’s Quarters: John Edwards used the proceeds of a foundation he started to help the poor to finance his own high flying lifestyle. Hot Air: HuffPo genius on Bush: At least Hitler and Stalin meant […]

One of the most bizarre things that we keep hearing from the “amnesty ‘n’ open borders crowd” is that the Senate bill is actually popular and will be good for the Republican Party. The problem with that theory is that the Senate immigration bill has not only been shown to be widely disliked by the […]

Over at Hugh Hewitt’s blog, Dean Barnett came up with his list of “Top 10 Cool Movies of the Past 20 Years,” “On last night’s show, I offered my list of “The Top 10 Cool Movies of the Past 20 Years.” Why only the past 20 years? Because tastes change, and what may have been […]

This was so brain bogglingly amazing, even for Europe, that I just had to excerpt it, “ROMANO Prodi, the Italian prime minister, has accused nations such as Britain and Poland of putting national interests ahead of European goals, and said Europe had lost the common spirit to move ahead. …He lambasted Britain for its “obstinacy” […]

All in the name of Allah. Would he even know what to do with the all the virgins? “Nato accuses Taliban of using children in suicide missions,” by Chiade O’Shea for The Guardian: Children as young as six are being used by the Taliban in increasingly desperate suicide missions, coalition forces in Afghanistan claimed yesterday. […]

The man who proved to be — at least from America’s perspective — only the third great European leader of the last century (and, yes, the other two were Brits as well), Tony Blair, is almost out of office. “British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Sunday handed over leadership of the Labor Party to his […]

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Folks, on Tuesday of next week, the immigration bill is coming back. If this bill passes the Senate, it will be an absolute disaster for the Republican Party in 2008. Moreover, if this bill were to get through the Senate and then somehow get through the House, it would be a nightmare for the Republican […]

Yesterday, a GOP aide, who is one of my sources in the Senate, gave me the rundown on what’s currently happening with the Senate immigration bill (You can see my two previous reports from this source here and here). To begin with, the key thing to keep in mind about the upcoming vote on the […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Game Radar: The 10 most controversial video games Cassy Fiano: Osama bin Laden, you’re my hero! Celebslam: A bikini bottom and t-shirt clad Jennifer Garner goes paddle surfing. Tammy Bruce: A hot new Tammy Bruce pic w/ a gun and a microphone. […]

1) This bill is incredibly unpopular with the general public. In poll after poll, you’ll find that the American people are strongly opposed to this bill. Rassmussen shows the public opposing it 50% to 23%. Survey USA says the public is against it 46% to 36%. At Pew Research, they say that, “41 percent of […]

Yesterday, I put out the Top Ten Movies We Should Screen In US Embassies to give foreigners a little taste of what Americans are like and how we think via our movies. Now, here’s a list to help give people an idea of how liberals view America and the world, 10) On Deadly Ground: The […]

I’ve noted before that the “Burger King” guy is a really creepy dude. You know, he sneaks around, wears a mask, doesn’t talk, and serves people food in odd, isolated spots where he could easily kill them if they were to displease him by not eating his sandwiches. Nobody tops that guy’s creepiness factor, but […]

If you’re looking for a signal that the Bush administration is no longer serious about fighting terrorism, this would seem to be as good as any, “The Bush administration is nearing a decision to close the Guantanamo Bay detainee facility and move its terror suspects to military prisons elsewhere, The Associated Press has learned. Senior […]

Dick Morris is a really brilliant guy about 75% of the time and the other 25% of the time, he spews some of the most ridiculous flippity flarpity floop I have ever heard. The key to getting the most out of Dick Morris is being able to tell which is which. This statement would fall […]

This is an exclusive report from Matt Sanchez, who is embedded in Iraq. Sometime after 0200 Operation Alljah began in a middle-class neighborhood in northern Fallujah. The Marines of the 2nd Battalion 6th Marines occupied a police precinct and began a swarm or strategic blocking off of the streets, in order to control access both […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: The Daily Mail: Hot British pop star Cheryl Cole lounges at the pool in a bikini. YouTube: Video: National Lampoon’s 72 virgins. Celebslam: A hand written Paris Hilton response to fan mail she received in jail. Zogby International: The Zogby Interactive poll […]

We keep getting reports like this one through the media, but we never seem to do anything about it, Five Britons kidnapped in Baghdad were abducted by a group “trained, equipped and advised” by Iran, America’s commander in Iraq said yesterday. Gen David Petraeus said he believed that the four security guards and civilian contractor […]

Over at Human Events, they’ve put together the “Top Ten Movies We’d Like to Screen in US Embassies” (part one & part two). The idea is supposed to be to give foreigners a little taste of what Americans are like and how we think via our movies and well, you know me, I’ve seldom met […]

Nancy Pelosi is being booed, “House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) yesterday reaffirmed her commitment to end the war in Iraq, but her words were greeted with skepticism and some boos by anti-war liberal activists. Addressing the liberal pressure group Campaign for America’s Future, Pelosi called the war in Iraq a “tragedy” and a “grotesque mistake,” […]

Don’t these liberal claims that there is this huge untapped market for liberal talk radio that is being deliberately kept off the air by evil corporations sound particularly hollow after the failure of Air America? The Center for American Progress and Free Press today released the first-of-its-kind statistical analysis of the political make-up of talk […]

I know a lot of you are probably thinking, “Hawkins, you have up an ad for Michael Moore’s ‘Sicko,’ Glenn Greenwald’s book, and Ron Paul/Dennis Kucinich merchandise. What is up with that?” The honest answer is, “I have no idea.” Still, I’m not complaining. If liberals want to give me money to run their ads, […]

A couple of weeks back, I interviewed Fark’s Drew Curtis. Since then, I’ve finished his new book, It’s Not News, It’s Fark: How Mass Media Tries to Pass Off Crap As News. The book is outstanding; it’s light, funny, and it’s an extremely effective critique of the media from someone who’s apolitical. Here are my […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: The Daily Mail: Beyonce shows off her curves in St Tropez. Cassy Fiano: An excerpt from OJ’s book that explains how he killed Nicole Brown and Ron Goldman — “if he did it.” Kyle Smith: On Michael Moore’s “Sicko” (Outstanding) Xiaxue: 137 […]

Michael Bloomberg, the liberal mayor of New York, left the Republican party in what seems likely to be a prelude to a run at the presidency as an independent in 2008. Now, can Michael Bloomberg win the presidency? No. I’ve written about this in detail previously and you can see it here, if you want […]

Someone put the Goracle on a slow boat to China, China has overtaken the United States as the world’s biggest producer of carbon dioxide, the chief greenhouse gas, figures released today show. The surprising announcement will increase anxiety about China’s growing role in driving man-made global warming and will pile pressure onto world politicians to […]

Here’s an email I received from RWN reader D. Giles, “Great interview (with Bernard Goldberg). I’d disagree with his analysis about conservatives sitting out elections. Even us poor rubes can add. Abstaining means one less vote for the Republican candidate. Voting Democrat means a net loss of two votes for the Republican. I didn’t do […]

673 RWN readers voted yesterday for their favorite Cable News Host/Cable Personalities. Here were the results, Brit Hume: 28% Dennis Miller: 13% Bill O’Reilly: 13% Glenn Beck: 11% Sean Hannity: 11% Neil Cavuto: 6% Lou Dobbs: 5% Jon Stewart: 3% Shep Smith: 2% Stephen Colbert: 2% John Gibson: 1% Tucker Carlson: 1% Greg Gutfeld: 1% […]

On Thursday of last week, I caught up with Bernard Goldberg and interviewed him via phone about his new book, Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right: How One Side Lost Its Mind and the Other Lost Its Nerve. What follows is an edited transcript of our conversation. Enjoy! John Hawkins: Now, […]

Make sure to check out Conservative Grapevine today, where you’ll find links like: Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Jessica Alba is attacked by liberals for looking at herself as an American, not a Mexican-American The Daily Mail: The secret of Posh Spice’s 23-inch-waist (w/pic) Dennis Prager: You’re in a bad neighborhood and 10 men approach you… Alaska […]